Return to Oz (1985) Movie Reaction | Her FIRST TIME WATCHING | Those darn Wheelers!
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This movie haunts the childhoods of so many. So weird and so good! “BEWARE THE WHEELERS!!”
I was terrified of the wheelers as a kid
This was one of my all-time childhood favorites! The nightmare fuel that it provided was unmatched into this day princess Mombi switching her heads is traumatic!
Princess Langwidere (the character from the third book) wasn't nearly as frightening. She wasn't a witch at all, just a lazy, spoiled princess with a strange magical condition and the selfishness to indulge it regardless of the harm it caused. Mombi (from the second book) was an entirely different person - definitely a witch, but a solitary one with no tie to any other magical entity. They were combined when the decision was made to put the two books together.
Indeed, Real Mombi from the books had enchanted her into Pip the boy, not imprisoned ozma in some weird mirror thing like the movie. @@Serai3
Eggs being poison to the gnome king is just as non-sensical as water being able to melt the Wicked Witch of the West. It's a children's story and that's enough for me.
"DOROTHY GAILLLLLLL!!" That part ALWAYS freaked me out as a kid, particularly when her body started walking around lol. Always loved this one even more than the original. Childhood fave for sure.
I grew up watching both the Wizard of Oz and Return to Oz side by side and loved both equally, albeit for completely different reasons. These 80s films helped me develop a resilience to scary things, and now I absolutely love horror films as an adult.
Same! But I do still have a fear of hospitals/doctors because of the gurney scene 😅
I liked this movie a lot because it is a lot more like the books but I really wish we would’ve gotten Ozmas full story. I understand wanting to capitalize off of the recognizability of Dorothy, but I adore Ozma.
20:33 "it can't be helped now" always made me giggle, this is a childhood favorite of mine and has a lot of sentimental meaning to me
It’s just one of those things in OZ, eggs are poisonous to gnomes, water melts evil witches etc
I just watched this recently again and only now I noticed the sounds from wheels when they are transporting Dorothy, were an adaptation of the wheelers. Also the male nurses that is wheeling her there. Lol😂 Better late then never I guess!
As a kid I vividly remember being scared by the room with all the princess’ heads and remember the room where Dorothy has to try to find her friends by saying “OZ.” Thanks for the reaction!!
The electric shock machine was the Kansas version of tick tock and the pumpkin for halloween in the hospital represented Jack. My favorite movie as a kid❤
This is forever one of my absolute favorite films of all time! And yes it absolutely scared the SHIT out of me when I first saw it around the age of seven. Had to turn it off when the headless Mombi came towards Dorothy and all the heads were screaming. But I love this movie so much. Probably the most faithful film adaptation of the ‘Oz’ books we’ve ever had
Tik-tok was the first mechanical man, the first robot so to speak, depicted in fictional literature.
Untrue. Read my comment for details.
Go in Peace and Walk with God. 😎 👍
@@BigGator5 What comments? I don't see any except this one.
John Nehrich ...This is a reply. Go read my comment.
John Nehrich ...I have also reported everyone of your comments, except for this one, for SPAM. You haven't even watched the video. Stop spamming.
Always wondered was Tik-tok bronze or gold. At the end he was polished gold but I thought they just replaced his old body parts.
I love Return To Oz it's a misunderstood masterpiece!
I am so glad that you mentioned how it's more of a sequel to the books and the merging of the two books. I was just thinking I would let you know how this film followed the books more closely just as you explained it yourself!😁
This movie was a HUGE part of my childhood! One of my all time favorites!!
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I love this movie. It's visually much more accurate to the original Neill illustrations. (Art Nouveau as opposed the the MGM film's Art Deco design.) Also, aside from the bookend (Dorothy being taken to the hospital and then escaping), it's straight from the second and third Oz books. It's such a pity that the studio went through that shakeup that buried this film. It would have been amazing to see a whole series of films based on those books. And Fairuza was the perfect age to play Dorothy. (Though it is interesting that _her_ design is out of the first book, which was illustrated by William Densmore, while everyone else and the general design was patterned after John Neill's work, who illustrated all the books after the first one. I guess Neill's Gibson Girl styling might have looked a bit odd on an eight-year-old.)
Ah back when children's movies were scarier than most horror movies are now.
"I am Tic Tok: The Royal Army Of Oz."
Everything about Tic Tok is awesome.
Fun Fact: Tim Burton has acknowledged Jack Pumpkinhead (Brian Henson) as an inspiration for the iconic character Jack Skellington in The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993).
Historical Fact: Tic Tok is "the prototype robot" and is widely considered to be one of the first robots (preceded only by Huge Hunter in The Steam Man Of The Prairies (1868) by Edward S. Ellis) to appear in modern literature, though the term "Robot" was not used until the 1920s.
The Royal Army Of Oz Fact: Gymnast Michael Sundin stood upside-down (with legs bent) and backwards inside Tik Tok's body to move the legs. Sean Barrett was the voice. Tim Rose is also credited as Tik Tok, but I can't find what his role was exactly. I can assume Rose was the up-close puppeteer.
Ruby Slippers Fact: Fairuza Balk's ruby slippers were specially handmade with imitation rubies and rotoscoped in post-production to give them a magical look. The rubies were actually glass beads imported from Austria and individually attached to the shoes with a special spray adhesive. This later proved problematic, as the hot stage lights melted the adhesive, and the young actress's fidgety movements would often knock the beads off. Tired of chasing after detached beads, the wardrobe staff finally ordered the shoes to be worn only when visible on camera. Balk confirmed to a fan, via Twitter in September of 2017, that she got to keep one pair of the ruby slippers she wore in the film. In order to include the ruby slippers as part of this film, Disney had to pay royalties to MGM, the studio which had produced The Wizard Of Oz (1939). The ruby slippers did not appear in L. Frank Baum's original novel; they were invented for the 1939 film to better take advantage of the newly developed Technicolor process. In the original novel, Dorothy wore a pair of magical silver shoes which were lost when she used them to return to Kansas and never appeared again.
Please Note: I had to literally misspell a character's name just to get my comment to stick. Please stop moderating that word.
The movie sort of implies that Tik-tok is the mechanized military of WWI, i.e., tanks. But the book predates the invention by a decade and a half. Also, Tik-tok was not created to fight and was actually created in the neighboring magical land of Ev. In the Land of Oz, General Jinjur was head of "the army of revolt" (not actually the Oz army but then Oz doesn't seem to have anything like this.
According to Wiki: "Tik-Tok is a fictional "mechanical man" from the Oz books by American author L. Frank Baum. He has been termed "the prototype robot," and is widely considered to be one of the first robots (preceded by Edward S. Ellis' Huge Hunter, or The Steam Man of the Prairies, in 1868) to appear in modern literature, though the term "Robot" was not used until the 1920s, in the play R.U.R."
I do agree he is awesome.
Tiktok is the way the name is spelled in Baum's books. :)
Serai3 ...No it is not. Even if it was, if I put that spelling in the original comment, RUclips will still eat my comment.
@@BigGator5 Yes, it is. I have the books right here. And seeing as how I just posted a comment on this page with that spelling, and it posted fine, I don't believe your claim about that either.
I remember watching this movie on HBO Family back in 2005 and it was not what I expected it to be. I never knew it would be this dark.
Jean marsh was great in this. I also remember her on the classic twilight zone as a robot who was in love with a human prisoner on prison planet. When convict got a pardon the rocket crew captain said there was no room onboard for a robot. He shot her and left her behind to shut up the pardoned convict. I also remember Jean Marsh from the 1980 horror film "The Changling" with George C Scott. Definatly one of the scariest movies I've ever seen.
Dude having an actual lunch pail tree would be awesome
Dang it, Vanessa, stop questioning things. 😂 I'm only joking, but as a kid I was just like "Eggs are poisonous to him. Okay!" I can't remember the first time I saw this, but fortunately I was at least old enough not to be scarred for life. We had it on video so I watched it regularly.
“So much for that broken leg!” Auntie Em said at the beginning, “that leg mended. It’s mended.”
Near the end of the movie, when Dorothy sees mental hospital attendant caged suddenly, it creeped me because I believe she realized it was Real Mombi.
MGM's movie changed the concept of the books in that it was all a dream, while the books, it was a real place. This movie had to skirt the idea of what people knew from the movie, with its real people showing up in Oz, by reversing the premise - the Oz people are foreshadowed in Kansas. I think this was brilliant.
First of all: *Massive thank you* for doing a video on what I consider one of the most overlooked and underrated 80's movies out there.
I actually grew up with this movie before the original and got instantly hooked. The fact that it didn't have to be bright and bouncy all the time and yet still captured that innocent, childlike glee you'd expect from a fantasy world like this.
I love the characters.
Fairuza Balk is outstanding as *Dorothy.* She's always highly expressive and emotional without ever getting annoying or boring. People need to mention her more often when talking about good child actors.
*Bellina The Chicken* is probably my least favorite member of the team. Not that I dislike her, but her voice can get a little annoying over time and other than a couple snarky remarks and sometimes giving Dorothy a clue, she doesn't contribute much to the story overall until the end.
Speaking of which, the Nome King's weakness is both a funny reveal but also smart when you compare it to the old Oz movie: Both main villains get defeated by super regular and simple things (The Wicked Witch Of The West by plain water and the Nome King by a single egg), so it's kind of a neat call back.
*The Wheelers* are terrifying, especially when you're a kid. They were one of my first introductions to geniune danger in a film. And even though I later started to question what they could even do to Dorothy (they don't have any hands), their freaky attitude, cackles and noises they made still made them highly intimidating. Good god, that squeaking of the wheels gave me goosebumps even while watching this video.
*Tik Tok* was my childhood hero for putting the wheelers in their place. I love his oldschool gentleman soldier personality and that he keeps coming up with good ideas. His weakness of having to be wound up regularily is both a good weakness and allows him to use it to his advantage (like when he faked to be run down just to get Dorothy in the room with him). Plus, I find his design to be the movie's most iconic one. I remember seeing a pringles can and the monopoly guy for the first time and asking myself both times: 'Is that... Tik Tok?'
*Princess Mombi* is a great take on vanity made literal. I bet there are some people out there so obsessed with beauty, if they could change heads whenever they wanted, they would. I love her spiky dress and her playing the mandolin like a boss. I like that they didn't play into the trope of 'Princess = Nice/Queen = Evil' like in so many Disney movies prior. Here, Mombi is the Princess and the kind Ozma the Queen. And of course, there's that scene that is most often mentioned when talking about this movie, where her head wakes up, followed by all the others, they all start to scream and her headless body jerks up from the bed. In the words of Animat: 'That is one horrifying alarm system'.
*Jack Pumpkinhead* is by far my favorite example of the lovable, naive character type.
The fact that he's so frail and shaky looking really makes you wanna look out and protect him. So much so that even lines like 'May I call you mom?', which would normally sound kind of creepy, actually work perfectly in his case, because they nailed his childlike cluelessness. I can definitely see Jack Skellington from 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' being inspired by him (The scrawny, tall body, the big round head, the big round eye holes and big smile, the soft-spoken voice, the fact that he's called *Jack* the *Pumpkin* king and the fact the first time we see him he wears a *pumpkin* on his *head).*
The older I get, the more I realize that *the Gump* is my spirit animal. He's basically the Eeyore of the gang, sprinkling bits of dry humor and sarcasm inbetween, trying to adapt to his new life as a 'thing'. And even though he seemed reluctant to help and even apathetic at times, he ultimately cared enough to help by playing the Nome King's game to get the Scarecrow, despite not even having any personal stakes. I realize he's definitely a grump with a good heart underneath, sort like Archimedes from 'The Sword In The Stone' or Kamaji from 'Spirited Away'. The scene where he flies for the first time is my favorite of the movie and I'll be damned, if I could choose to own one single prop from this movie, it would be the Gump head.
*The Nome King* is delightful as a villain. You can tell Nicol Williamson is having a ball with the role. The Nome King enjoys being evil, superior to others and messing with them. Like when Mombi asked why he didn't just petrify Dorothy and her friends immediately, to which he just replies that it's more fun that way. The way he (and his servants) can morph through the rocks is very creative and visually stunning, almost like he's less a rock creature himself and more of an entity that can only possess and exist within the rock from the environment. It makes sense then he would want to become human and be free of the mountain. On that note, whether in claymation or in costume and prosthetics, the Nome King always looks great. Especially that final form where he looks like a demon. Imo, that scene actually rivals Mombi's screaming head scene in terms of scariness. Except whereas the head scene was powerful yet brief, the angry Nome King scene went on for a good bit and let that looming feeling of dread really sink in (motherfucker ATE a sofa).
And finally, *Queen Ozma.* While she didn't appear all that much in the movie, the way she was shown as a silhouette in the mirrors is very memorable.
This next bit is mostly speculation but I think her real life counterpart died during the flood. Queen Ozma is what Dorothy manifests her as in her mind. She's the one who saved Dorothy (namely her mind and imagination, and with that Oz itself) from the electro therapy, therefore becoming its rightful ruler.
Not only was Ozma sealed in a mirror, she also sees Dorothy off one last time through a mirror. I like to think her connection to mirrors seems to imply that she is basically an idealized mirror image of Dorothy herself, a role model so to speak, not only for rescuing her, but to show her that having a vivid imagination isn't something to be ashamed of or something that needs to be 'cured', to be proud and grateful you still have the things that make you... you.
(The fact alone that you can speculate and theorize so much about this movie is a testament to it being a truly worthwhile film, even decades later.)
Speaking of cure, I think the reason why the nurse was locked up at the end is because as Ozma's real life counterpart told Dorothy when escaping the facility, there were test subjects locked away in the basement, likely victims of the Doctor's 'therapy'. So when the building was hit by lightning and the people were evacuated, it's likely the authorities found out about their little experiment and arrested her as an accomplice. Had Dr. Worly not died trying to save his machines, he likely would be sitting in that police wagon with her.
This may sound sacrilegious, but presentation-wise I find this movie far superior to the old Wizard Of Oz movie.
One thing that bothered me about that film was that the characters (Scarecrow, Tin Man, Cowardly Lion) always were just people in makeup, making the entire thing look more like a stageplay (which granted I think was the idea behind it, but it's just not my thing).
So l really enjoyed that in Return To Oz, the Tin Man actually looked like a machine man, the Cowardly Lion actually looked like a lion (with a cute little bow in his mane, I think that's so perfect for his character, this fierce looking animal with that one little accessory to make him look cute and funny), and for as derpy and creepy he may look at times, the Scarecrow actually looks like a scarecrow now.
People on RUclips always go on and on about how scary it is, but honestly, it's so much more than that. It's clever, subtle, funny, charming, insanely creative and only scary when it needs to be.
In my opinion, this movie will forever be one of the four cornerstones of 80's Fantasy:
- *The Neverending Story*
- *The Dark Crystal*
- *Labyrinth*
- and *Return To Oz*
And If you've read this far, thank you for taking your time to read this (not just Late To The Party, but anyone reading), god knows it's taken a while to type it all down.
More “special kind of frightening” children’s movies:
- Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
- The Watcher in the Woods (1980)
😂😂👍🏼👍🏼 You mentioned SWTWC!
Edit: the tarantulas scarred me so much that I haven’t been able to re-watch it in my adulthood. LOL!
Tiktok was such a fun character!
Love that you're doing this. The only film I ran out of the cinema crying from as a kid
This was one of my fave movies from my childhood. The Oz books were always slightly dark and scary. Wish they would do the whole series as an HBO show or movie series.
That would be smashing! I know Netflix announced a few months back that they’re doing this very thing: a series that will serve as a faithful adaptation of all the original books in the series
Jean Marsh is also in the movie Willow (Queen Bavmorda) and a fantastic episode of The Twilight Zone (Original Series) named The Lonely.
The Wheeler that TikTok picked up after beating them is Anthony DeLongis. Two years later, he plays a character named Blade in another cult classic movie Masters Of The Universe.
I love this movie! Underrated film! Check out ‘The Wiz’ from 1978 starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson. Another gem!✨
It's on the list!
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The snoring out of the neck hole comment disgusted me and made me laugh all at once 😂😂😂
I remember this being released in theaters and advertised but I didn't see it until many years later. I just miss this era of dreamy fantasy movies because by the early 1990s, I wondered why they weren't being made anymore and craved them.
Such a amazing actress Fairuza Balk is.
Such a pity that she quit acting.
Why did she quit? New family or something?
This is one of the most terrifying films I’ve ever seen. I remember seeing this as a kid and then having nightmares for weeks on end about those goddamn Wheelers. And those heads.
The Wheelers were the only thing in the film that scared me when I first saw it… not even the heads. I guess I’m a strange one!
Glad i missed this movie as a kid was freaked out enough by the trees in the first one 😅 enjoyed it enough as an adult though and loved your reactions 😊
If either of you haven't seen Dogma yet I'd highly recommend it (not talked about enough imo)
I fucking LOVED this movie as a kid, it scared the shit out of me but I loved it. THANK YOU FOR SHARING❤❤❤
27:27 Okay...THAT is actually a hilarious reason for this whole setup. WHY DIDN'T the Gnome King just wipe them out immediately?
"😈 It's more...FUN this way."
As a huge fan of the L Frank Baum Oz series, I really enjoyed how they incorporated Land of Oz and Ozma of Oz. Ozma of Oz reads differently in today's culture than it did 40 years ago.
Mombi, the hag who was Ozma's guardian in boy form is far, far different from the Queen Mombi of Return to Oz. Although her potion that permitted Jack Pumpkinhead and the flying bed to come to life made more sense when she was a wandering witch in The Land of Oz than in this film.
The Oz books were written in the very early 1900's, when the bicycle craze was still going strong but bikes (with two equal-sized wheels) were still quite new. I think L.Frank Baum must have seen a cycling race, with racers hunched over their bikes, and came up with the idea of the wheelers. As in the books, this movie makes them out to be very scary but not really capable of doing much harm, lacking hands.
For this movie the egg is really no different than garlic for vampires, silver for werewolves, salt for witches, iron for faires,etc., but it's different in the books, eggs don't really hurt them it's almost like a superstition, some say the symbolism is that the egg is a symbol of the matriarch which goes against the nomes who have no females.
Alway loved this movie. When I seen it in theaters I was happy because at the time I was sick of singing and dancing in movies from Disney and this was Wizard of Oz without singing only story. Dark but fun.
Some Disney films that are singing and dancing have dark frightening moments.
Weirdly this film.didn't scare me as a kid as it was just strange and wonderful to 5 year old me.
Watching this as an adult thought I was like WTF 😱😱😱 Especially with the headless Mombi scene.
Thanks, Robert & Vanessa! 🟩 For sure, this ones radically different tone combined with it's homages to elements from the 1939 classic are both fascinating as well as puzzling. But as a standalone work, I like it. #LateToTheParty #WalterMurch #ReturnToOz #ReturnToOz1985
I remember going to the cinema to see this as a child. I was already a horror fan so I loved every second of this.
I was a big fan of the books as a child. I read almost every single one(I think I didn't finish Rinkitink in Oz), so I adore this movie. It's the closest I've seen as an adaptation of the books rather than being mired in the decisions of the '39 film.
My question is , the film Return to Oz picks up where the original Wizard of Oz ended . That’s because of this doctor was asking about where are those ruby slippers are now , and later this Dorothy found out the nome king had them . Is this the second adventure or is it Journey back to Oz the second adventure ?
I remember seeing this in the theater with my older sister. She was reading the oz books at the time. My little sister stayed home she was too little. I just had my 6th birthday and I remember I got a Return to Oz puzzle and an ET puzzle of when elliot's little sister dressed him up in drag. I thought return to oz was so much fun. My favorite part was Tick tock I used imitate him for friends for laughs. I do it for my daughter whenever she talks about the tick talk. She thimks I'm nuts.
The tricky thing about eggs being poison is that this is lifted from the books, and it's a bit confusing how eggs and Nomes are used. On the one hand, the books imply that the Nomes' fear of eggs is just a superstition, but on the other hand, whenever the Nomes cause trouble for the people of the world (and they cause A LOT of trouble in the books), the Nomes always back down when eggs get involved, so the Nomes treat eggs as a legitimate threat.
Great reaction!
Yeah Warner bros wouldn't let Disney have Dorothy be the age she is in the original musical film
She was an actual child in the book, like Alice.
@@ebailey140 correct
So Warner told Disney
They had to have Dorothy be like in the book, not their film
The books scared me more than most of the movies!
Walter Murch is one of the all time great film editors. The fact he only directed one feature is very sad.
How bizarre! I was only listening to some of the soundtrack earlier today on flight back from Turkey.
The place of course, not the bird, similar to a CHICKEN!
(My case kinda sounded like the wheelers too.... urghhhh.
Plus, by end of the day, i was walking like Tick Tock!).
OZ!
I adore the books and the original Wizard of Oz is my favorite movie of all time, but this movie is so fun ! The effects were fantastic and when I saw this in 1985 it was a bit frightening but awesome at the same time. ❤
Tim Burton said the inspiration for Jack Skellington was jack pumpkinhead so yeah there is a connection.
the voice of TikTok is the voice of Andre the blacksmith in the Dark Souls games
This film is closer in tone and accuracy to the books than any film since and including MGM's musical adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Nicol Williamson (Nome king) was Merlin in Excalibur
I think Jack Pumpkin Head is similar to Scarecrow and TickTock is similar to Tinman, Gump would be like Lion I guess
There are old fairytales that mention that to gnomes, eggs are poisonous.
My fav childhood film! Yes this is way closer to the books than the og movie.
Fairuza Balk is also in Almost Famous.
I’m sure you recognized that the Wheeler‘s are part of the “hospital” staff, and that their squeaking is reminiscent of the gurney squeaking down the hall.
….and the doctor’s brain-zapping machine is reminiscent of Tic-Tok.
Loved the reaction as always guys..... one of my favourites growing up...... apart from Star Wars I probably watched this movie the most......... I think I actually watched this movie before the original....... Next up TIME BANDITS!!!!!! another one I loved.
I LOVED this movie as a kid, so it always throws me when people say it was scary or traumatic
Tim Burton had just been working at Disney when Return To Oz was released.
Knowing that Piper Laurie (Margaret White in Carrie) played Auntie Em in this movie, I would always joke that Auntie Em would tell Dorothy "Stop talking about Oz or you're going straight in the prayer closet!" lol.
Woah, I didn’t even know that there was a sequel 😮😮😮
This film was so much better than the original!
I read to oz books as a child I found return of creepy in parts but I enjoyed that it followed elements of the books
Darn it, now you guys are gonna have to do Something Wicked This Way Comes!!!😂
It’s so good even if people think it’s a bit cringe at time, I love it.
Those wheel people used to scare the piss outta me
This is one of my all time favorite movies.
6:30 I think they did lock her in. You never see the girl open or close the door 🚪.
Yo low key this movie was kinda scary back in the day as a young kid I watched this
Being incredulous at the egg defeating the Nome King when the Wicked Witch was defeated by a bucket of water...
The eggs are poisonous to all Nomes in the books. It's just a little plot device.
And fuck the Wheelers. Terrifying.
"No offense to anyone in Kansas" trust me, none taken lol
This movie holds a special place for me. The very first novels I read beyond children's picture books were the Oz books around age 5 or 6. We had really really old copies of the series, so honestly they held more nostalgia for me than the Garland movie did (although I do still enjoy it) and Return to Oz felt so much closer to the original tone of the novels. Mombi's heads scared the everloving crap out of me, but it was also the first time that I discovered I really liked being scared like that, so echoing a lot of other sentiments here: probably owe my love of horror to this.
The original books were even darker than this movie - for instance, the scarecrow had to kill a flock of crows attacking them by wringing each neck and the tin woodsman had to hack to death a couple of giant beasts with his ax. Author Baum was beseeched by many children writing him letters. They weren't frightened but instead wrote as to how much they enjoyed the series. Baum reached the point he tried to stop by having Dorothy and her aunt and uncle move to Oz so in theory all communication was cut off. Baum's young fans only clambered louder. One child pointed out with the recent development of wireless (radio) telegraphy, Dorothy could be sending out upgrades to what was going on. So Baum relented by continuing the series until his death.
How about the body horror of the Tin Man origin. The Ace enchanted and it chopped off parts of his body.
Isn’t that one of the Band Aids from Almost Famous? The one with the husky voice who runs into the wall? Lol looks like her
Great reaction. What a weird, fantastic movie -- what Patrick H Willems calls a Gonzo Blockbuster.
Jean Marsh was also in a 7th Doctor Story!
Literally the first book I ever read was Ozma of Oz with the original illustrations. The MGM movie is great but is quite different from the original Oz series, which frankly were quite dark.
MGM bought the rights to the first book, the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, while this movie is mostly based on the second, the Land of Oz (with Mombi, powder of lift, Jack Pumpkinhead, Ozma, and my favorite, the flying Gump) and Ozma of Oz (getting to Oz on a floating chicken coop in the ocean during a storm, the lunchpail trees, the wheelers, Tik-tok, the changeable heads, Billina, the Nome King and his ornaments). This movie brings to life - at least to me - the "real" Oz.
Return to Oz is easily the best "Oz" movie.
... How would the Wheelers spray paint the wall, when they dont have hands..?
This is one of my favorites! An my daughters shes 22 and we still watch is I highly recommend The Wiz it's another version of OZ but the with a all Black cast and it's so scary and awesome!!
Love this movie!!!
Wanna watch a really scary Disney flick from the 80's? Watch "Something wicked this way comes" OMG, now that is really scary!!!!!!
I loved return to oz
I actually like Fairuza Balk in this role.
I love this movie. More like the books. I wished they continued with this theme
Y'all should react to Diana & Michael Jackson the Wiz😊
My favourite movie of all time
When you said Jean Marsh and the fact that we still talk about her to this day we’re you referring to the fact that she’s in Willow or something else?
I was scared/confused:didn’t like it at 7 years old in 1985. With time, in several ways, I like it more than The Wizard of Oz. I wish they had the courage to go back to this kind of Oz adaptation, but this was such a bomb they’ll never touch this style for it again.
Oh no